giving groupe rw permission to thunderbird files

[Linda]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:42 -0500, Linda wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know how you can get thunderbird to give group rw 
>> permissions. I moved the profile to a  nfs and changed the permissions, 
>> but as soon as I access it, it changes files back to only user read 
>> write We have time share workers that I want to have use the same 
>> thunderbird profile but have different logins. I could make it run 
>> inside a script that fixes the permissions  after exit, but was hoping 
>> there was a way to fix this without doing that, especially since I was 
>> thinking about allowing access from winXP laptop so if they had to take 
>> care of mail when working at that station they would not have to 
>> physically move to an ubuntu computer and I have no idea how to make 
>> that work.
>>     
>
> You might try setting the umask from the default 022 to 002 and see if
> TBird honors the umask.  TBird might override the umask policy. For X
> logins, I believe you can put this in the $HOME/.xsession session
> startup file. e.g.
>
> umask 002
>   
I have the umask set in /etc/profile and permissions are correct when 
files are created with open office so TBird seems to override the umask 
policy.